To:A. G. GOIKHBARG

To the Narrow Council

Written:Written on March 12, 1921Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeGoikhbarg:

Readthis letter from the representative of Soviet Georgia,
especially what isunderscored(p. 3).

Itis necessaryimmediately

1)toput through aninjunctionon sending (without the
permission of the Narrow Council), and to give permission
with theutmost
circumspection,[1]

2)tomakeregularcheck-ups on execution.

12/III.Lenin

[1]Writtenon a letter from F. I. Makharadze reporting the
military and political situation in Georgia. On the letter Lenin wrote:
“Return to me.” On page 3 of the letter, Lenin under underscored the
passage where Makharadze speaks out against the dispatch to
Georgia of a great number of authorised agents agents from the centre.

OnMarch 14, 1921, the Narrow C.P.C. passed a decision
prohibiting all the People’s Commissariats from sending their agents
to Georgia without Special C.P.C. permission in each case.